UPDATE 2 - 49 Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip

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By Ramzi Mahmud, Hosni Nedim, and Betul Yilmaz

GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army killed 49 people and injured several others in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to medics.

Gaza's Civil Defense said in a statement that 22 people, including nine children and six women, were killed, and many others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted displaced civilians in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.

Two more people lost their lives after a residential building was shelled in the same neighborhood, medical sources told Anadolu.

In the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, eight people were killed and others injured, while another civilian was killed in the Al-Ramla neighborhood by Israeli army fire.

In the Tel Hawa neighborhood, the army targeted a vehicle carrying displaced Palestinians, killing two people and injuring several others.

On Sept. 21, the Israeli army escalated its ground operations in Gaza City, which began on Aug. 11, as part of a plan approved by the government to gradually occupy the Gaza Strip.

In the central Gaza Strip, Israeli strikes on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp claimed the lives of five Palestinians and injured many others, including women and children.

Nine aid seekers were also killed by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution site in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army has killed more than 65,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023. The relentless bombardment has rendered the enclave uninhabitable and led to starvation and the spread of diseases.